question regarding modem installation on laptop

[A Duston]

alok khemka wrote:
> 
> hi, i was trying to configure my modem on my laptop (dell inspiron 8200) but
> was not able to determine what exactly to do. i don;t know for sure whether
> my modem is a winmodem or not. the "lspci" shows that the chipset is intel
> 8086:2486(probably) at irq:11 and i/o 0xd400 & 0xdc00. the manufacturer of
> the modem id "Actiontec". do i need to find an appropriate driver for that
> or it's bundled with the kernel itself???

Based on that pci id, you have a 82801CA AC '97 Modem controller.  That is 
a softmodem.  Searching for a driver based on that information, you _may_ 
have some success.  Other softmodems in the same pci id range appear to be 
useable by other folks.  hsfdriver or something like that maybe.

Hal